Summary
You now have all the tools and setup required to confidently run the examples of this book and all your future Python projects. Understanding how to work with pyenv
and virtual environments is a key skill to ensure everything goes smoothly when you switch to another project or when you have to work on somebody else's code. You also learned how to install third-party Python libraries using pip
. Finally, you saw how to use HTTPie, a simple and efficient way to run HTTP queries that will make you more productive while testing your REST APIs.
In the next chapter, we'll highlight some of Python's peculiarities as a programming language and get a grasp of what it means to be Pythonic.